Hammond lawyer charged in bank robberies

A Hammond attorney has confessed to committing a string of bank robberies in Mississippi and Alabama and faces federal and state charges, according to the Louisiana State Police.
State police detectives on Wednesday developed information that led to the identification of Scott Eason Meece, 31, a private-practice lawyer living in Hammond. Eason owned two vehicles similar to those used by a man leaving the scene of the out-of-state robberies, authorities said.
Coordinating with the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation and the New Orleans office of the FBI, Louisiana State Police detectives on Thursday located Meece driving a maroon-colored Nissan near his home in Hammond. Troopers from Troop L assisted in stopping Meece on Intestate 12 in Tangipahoa Parish and Meese agreed to be interviewed at a State Police office in Hammond, where "he eventually confessed to the bank robberies," a press release said. The investigation is ongoing.